Hishida Shunsō

Fallen Leaves (right-hand screen), 1909.

落葉 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese), color on paper, six-panel folding screen

Eisei Bunko Museum, Japan

Waterfalls in Spring and Autumn (spring scroll), 1909.

春秋の滝 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese), color on silk, hanging scroll

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Japan

Waterfalls in Spring and Autumn (autumn scroll), 1909.

春秋の滝 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese), color on silk, hanging scroll

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Japan

Hydrangeas, 1902.

紫陽花 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese)

Adachi Museum of Art, Japan

Mahākāśyapa Smiling at the Lotus Flower, 1897.

微笑 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese), color on silk

Tokyo National Museum, Japan

Reflection in the Water, 1897.

水鏡 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese), color on silk, hanging scroll

The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan

Bodhisattva Kenshu, 1907.

賢首菩薩 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese), color on silk, hanging scroll

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Twilight

暮色図 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese)

Kyoto National Museum, Japan

Cat and Plum Blossoms, 1906.

猫梅 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese)

Adachi Museum of Art, Japan

Herd Boy, late 19th – early 20th century.

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese), ink on paper, hanging scroll

Yale University Art Gallery, United States

Going Back Home After Fishing, 1901.

帰漁 (museum title)

Hishida Shunsō (Japanese), color on silk, hanging scroll

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Japan

Works by Hishida Shunsō (1874-1911), in the public domain, each linked to the page of the museum that holds it. A pupil of Okakura Kakuzō at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, he founded the Japan Art Institute in 1898 with Yokoyama Taikan and Shimomura Kanzan; he and Taikan gave up the outline and laid colour in gradations, a manner critics mocked as mōrōtai, the "blurred style". His last works, painted while an eye disease threatened him with blindness, are among the best-known paintings of modern Japanese art. He died at thirty-six. Only works that the museums give to him without reservation, and of which a freely reusable photograph exists, are included: those of museums that place their images in the public domain or under a free licence (the national museums of Tokyo and Kyoto, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Yale) or, for the others, a free photograph published elsewhere, whose origin is given on the page of the work. The titles are those of the museums, with their translation.